Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 24/02/2025. The Supreme Court (SC), February 24, 2025 has directed all states to file their affidavits addressing concerns raised about antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs …
Nine-year-old Rani is unhappy. She has to stay away from her mother Janki Patel, who is taking part in a clinical trial at a centre 10 kilometres from her house at Bapu Nagar in Ahmedabad. “I do not like these trials. They take my parents away,” says Rani. In their …
To tighten regulations around clinical trials, a bill was drafted in 2002. Framed as per the guidelines of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), it was submitted to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in 2007 to be tabled in Parliament. But it has seen no progress ever since. …
What if a participant dies during a clinical trial? ICMR guidelines clearly mention that a participant must be insured for injuries and deaths. They bind ethics committees to review insurance documents before giving approval for the trial. Contract Research Organisations (CROs) and pharmaceutical companies say they ensure that participants are …
BAN ON the drug diclofenac, administered on domestic animals, has had a positive impact on the vulture population. It had not been quantified till recently. The rate of decline has slowed down—from 40 per cent to 18 per cent. The number of oriental white-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis) had dropped drastically …
Five per cent of the clinical trials conducted across the world will be in India by 2012. They are vital for confirming the efficacy of a new drug, but compromise on ethics. While doctors and organisations conducting trials make big bucks, the rights and safety of the subjects are often …
Global Biggies Slash Research Budget Mumbai: Even as global pharma biggies slashed their research and development (R&D;) spends for the first time ever in 2010, domestic companies have stepped on the gas. Over the last few years, domestic companies have been increasing their research expenditure, and now invest around 6% …
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) today organized a rally at India Gate to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The Delhi social welfare minister Kiran Walia flagged off the rally participated by hundreds of activists. The NCB also put up a museum to educate people on …
The article “‘Medicines for All’, the Pharma Industry and the Indian State” by S Srinivasan (EPW, 11 June 2011) should be commended for its painstaking researc and lucid presentation of facts. However, there are a few minor misinterpretations of the facts in that article. (Letters)
The article “‘Medicines for All’, the Pharma Industry and the Indian State” by S Srinivasan (EPW, 11 June 2011) should be commended for its painstaking research and lucid presentation of facts. (Letters)
Indian bio-pharmaceutical companies continue to play a relatively small role in innovation, says a report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). This, despite Indian companies signing research alliances with overseas companies, with plans afoot to expand such collaborations. Of the 40 global bio-pharma executives surveyed recently, over 70 percent are …
Co may resume supplies to the US nearly 3 years after they were halted from its 2 plants American drug authorities have started inspecting Ranbaxy Laboratories
A clinical trial that came under fire in India threatens to have a dual legacy: inflaming unfounded fears about a lifesaving vaccine and raising new questions about the management of medical research in the country. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110622/pdf/474427a.pdf
The pharmaceutical industry is seeking stronger ties with academia in a bid to speed up drug development. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110622/pdf/474433a.pdf
Hyderabad Good food, old Telugu movies and handsome money is what 25 women at Pidiguralla town in the coastal district of Guntur were promised in return for vials of their blood. But what they had not bargained for was severe body ache and hospitalisation. The women, most of whom are …
Govt Seals Offices Of Pharma Co For Testing Cancer Drug Which Is Yet To Get Approval Hyderabad: A day after the chilling exposure of clinical trials on poverty-stricken women by a pharma major in Hyderabad, the Andhra Pradesh government on Friday raided and sealed the offices of a drug company. …
Scientists Believe The Compound They Stumbled Upon Off The Rameswaram Coast Will Help Treat TB, HIV Chennai: For years, scientists at the Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC) here have been digging in deserts and under the sea hoping to unearth chemical compounds that had the potential to be developed into drugs …
A molecule extracted from a marine micro-organism, found off the coast of Rameshwaram, could potentially be the next biggest development in treating TB and HIV, claimed researchers here on Wednesday. Offering new hope to those living with HIV as well as TB patients, a group of scientists from the Tuberculosis …
